I've just installed Linux Mint and am very pleased with it in general. However, I'm having problems with printing. The only printer driver I've found is called "Canon 50i - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9". There's no print preview, nor indications of ink levels. In trying to print a PDF file, the colours are wrong and the image doesn't fit the page. I've looked on Canon websites and they seem not to produce a compatible driver. At the moment, I'm having to restart in Windows 7 to do my printing, which is a pain, to say the least. Any help would be gratefully received.

This tread from the Ubuntu forums might help. It contains a lengthy post signed by a Canon maintainer. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172214

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Thanks Frank. A very useful link.
Looks like I'll have to do a bit of experimenting with the printer configuration.

Good luck. Based on what I've seen here at LQ, Canon is not known for being Linux-friendly. Don't have any personal experience with them, though.